[-empyre-] networks of catastrophe + terror/capital

[Verena Conley]

Excellent point. Of course, terror is endemic to capitalism. Though we still
have to define it.
Also, since earlier we spoke of catastrophes, it seems fairly safe to say
that free market capitalism the way it was practiced since 1989 but
especially 2000 is the real catastrophe.

Verena

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 5:05 PM, simon <swht at clear.net.nz> wrote:

> Does this mean - the following - the following (too late), which my
> earlier post was an attempting to articulate: that capital encodes
> terror? makes use of it in its flows of symbolic exchange? as if having
> reached a critical velocity, the accident of history is given to
> returning endlessly?
>
> Or conversely has there been some sort of symbolic phase shift whereby
> the simulacrum, the coded world, that Image of
> thought-as-representation, now only runs by circulating, through the
> circulation of, acts/networked nodes of terrestrial and extraterrestrial
> terror? Is capital now entrained in the duration of terror? (As we are
> entrained in the durations of its spectacular technological means.)
>
> Simon Taylor
>
> www.squarewhiteworld.com
> www.brazilcoffee.co.nz
>
>
> Nicholas Ruiz III wrote:
> > As a reflection of the transparency of evil (Baudrillard), the whole
> > lot of it, Mumbai, etc.--is commerical art...and the millions of
> > downloads, transmissions and commentaries are its market, paid for in
> > broadcast fees, cable and satellite subscriptions and financed by
> > advertisers: with media art critics and all!  We are enveloped by a
> > postmodern Roman media coliseum, where gladiatorial urges are elicited
> > and fulfilled, where spectators take part in the war games, which are
> > repeated endlessly and archived for posterity on the Network.
> >
> > NRIII
> >
> > Nicholas Ruiz III, Ph.D
> > Editor, Kritikos
> > http://intertheory.org
> >
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